04-07-2012, 12:26 AM
(This post was last modified: 04-07-2012, 12:29 AM by AceInfinity.)
I can say Vista is good, or at least decent. Benchmarking tests are highly reliable. 
What do you mean by too many resources though?
It depends what kind of things you had on your machine because it's fact that it's actually not too much more than Windows 7. Your perception of Resources in terms of CPU and RAM hoggers, most likely due to hangs locking up specific tasks and extending the CPU cycles if your judging this on performance... But the amount of resources physically isn't very much different.
Although the machine is fine, as mentioned though it's mostly on the user for that. 70% of computer users have no clue what they're doing, the other 15-20% are okay, and the remaining have a good idea of how to properly use their PC.
I've seen and compared the source code and there truthfully is not much different other than possibly inefficiencies that slow things down, but as per resources there's almost a direct comparison.
Damink lol trust me, I used to be like you. Thought Vista was junk, but it's definitely not as bad as people think, and especially as bad as I used to think.
OP:
Size doesn't have much to do with it unless you're lacking the capacity on your hard drive, which can cause issues, but not necessarily with the speed or performance you see while gaming. XP runs sligthly different, and it's a stable version/release of what setup they had in those older days, Vista is a bit less stable because MS seems to always release every 2nd version as far as i'm concerned as a finished product of the previous official Windows OS. Vista is fine Benchmark-wise for gaming, and compares up there with Windows 7. The only downside with Vista is that if you leave programs open in the background while running your game, if your CPU spikes to a certain percentage at a critical point in time where it locks a currently executing task (sent to the kernel as an instruction just like all do), then that freezing will be linked to the performance of the process for your game executable. With other OS's this is unavoidable anyways, but the way Vista is designed, it's recovery from things like this is weak. But I can't say you'll notice much difference between XP or Vista if you don't consider the fact that running a fresh install of XP is obviously going to be a bit better.
As for the drivers for your networking device, I wouldn't copy them over personally. You may have luck, but it's always better to get them from the manufacturer's website, you never know if there's a newer version of that driver either than the one you previously had.
Quote:Used to many resources and was able to bloat easily.
What do you mean by too many resources though?
It depends what kind of things you had on your machine because it's fact that it's actually not too much more than Windows 7. Your perception of Resources in terms of CPU and RAM hoggers, most likely due to hangs locking up specific tasks and extending the CPU cycles if your judging this on performance... But the amount of resources physically isn't very much different.
Quote:Sure its great on a fresh in stall. But after a few months of running the problems begin.
Although the machine is fine, as mentioned though it's mostly on the user for that. 70% of computer users have no clue what they're doing, the other 15-20% are okay, and the remaining have a good idea of how to properly use their PC.
I've seen and compared the source code and there truthfully is not much different other than possibly inefficiencies that slow things down, but as per resources there's almost a direct comparison.
Damink lol trust me, I used to be like you. Thought Vista was junk, but it's definitely not as bad as people think, and especially as bad as I used to think.
OP:
Quote:I heard that XP is smaller size so it might help
Size doesn't have much to do with it unless you're lacking the capacity on your hard drive, which can cause issues, but not necessarily with the speed or performance you see while gaming. XP runs sligthly different, and it's a stable version/release of what setup they had in those older days, Vista is a bit less stable because MS seems to always release every 2nd version as far as i'm concerned as a finished product of the previous official Windows OS. Vista is fine Benchmark-wise for gaming, and compares up there with Windows 7. The only downside with Vista is that if you leave programs open in the background while running your game, if your CPU spikes to a certain percentage at a critical point in time where it locks a currently executing task (sent to the kernel as an instruction just like all do), then that freezing will be linked to the performance of the process for your game executable. With other OS's this is unavoidable anyways, but the way Vista is designed, it's recovery from things like this is weak. But I can't say you'll notice much difference between XP or Vista if you don't consider the fact that running a fresh install of XP is obviously going to be a bit better.
As for the drivers for your networking device, I wouldn't copy them over personally. You may have luck, but it's always better to get them from the manufacturer's website, you never know if there's a newer version of that driver either than the one you previously had.